Kim and Trump meet in Singapore – in pictures

We have just got through the menu for the working lunch, which Trump and Kim are due to sit down to in about five minutes. That means they’ll be eating lunch at 11:30am local time, which seems on the early side, but at least the menu looks delicious.

They will be eating:

Starters

Traditional prawn cocktail served with avocado salad

Green mango kerabu with honey lime dressing and fresh octopus

“Oiseon” Korean stuffed cucumber

Main course

Beef short rib confit, served with potato dauphinois and steamed broccolini, red wine sauce on the side

North Korea detonates a nuclear bomb, followed swiftly by a meeting between its leader and the US president and the establishment of formal relations.

Although this sounds worryingly close to real life, it is actually the plot of a four-part North Korean movie released in 2012.

The four-part film, The Country I Saw (really a sequel to the 1980s film of that name), follows a Japanese professor who works out the true nature of North Korea’s nuclear programme is to force the US into direct talks. The climax shows a dramatic nuclear explosion, forcing the US to send Bill Clinton to meet Kim Jong-il, the late father of the current leader.

Jeffrey Lewis at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies wrote in a blog post that it showed North Korea “has concluded that its survival as a functioning state in the international system is entirely a product of its military capabilities”.

Trump and Kim are locked away for the “expanded bilateral” portion of today’s talks, which run until 11.30am local time.

Unlike their first talk of the day, at which just Trump, Kim and their interpreters were present, at this talk the leaders are accompanied by their key advisers. Benjamin Haas and Julian Borger have this handy guide to who is in the room.